1. Truth in Love Podcast Episode #360 – “Mind vs. Brain”

2. Book Recommendation: Lies My Therapist Told Me by Greg Gifford. Too many people are caught in a vicious cycle of visiting every doctor, psychiatrist, psychologist, and therapist in their area only to find frustrating labels and numbing medications at the end of each path. Rather than eradicating anxiety in the same way vaccines conquered smallpox, the mental health establishment has seen the number of diagnoses and prescriptions skyrocket on its watch. How did we get here? And does Christianity have any answers for this mental health crisis? In Lies My Therapist Told Me, Dr. Greg Gifford delivers the definitive Christian critique of secular psychiatry and psychology. He shows how mental health culture spreads beliefs that misinform our understanding of ourselves and our issues, and he debunks popular myths.  If this entire issue is new to you, if you have been believing the secular worldview on these things, this is a great place to start your learning.  245 pages.

3. Book Recommendation: The Enemy Within: Straight Talk About the Power and Defeat of Sin by Kris Lundgaard. This book is a classic, a great help to understand the battle within your heart and mind against sin. It takes dead aim at the heart of ongoing sin. Drawing from two masterful works by John Owen, Kris Lundgaard offers insight, encouragement and hope for overcoming the enemy within. An easy read, a profoundly insightful read.  77 pages. 

4. Article/Sermon: “The Effect of Sin on our Thinking” by Andrew Rogers (The noetic effects of sin)

5. Scientific article: Secular in source, showing that the psychiatric theory of our problems does not have a scientific basis for its belief. This was quoted in ‘Saving Abnormal’ by Daniel Berger II.  Article = University of Liverpool, “Psychiatric Diagnosis ‘Scientifically Meaningless.’”, ScienceDaily 8 (July 2019)

6. Scientific article: “Genetic research as completely failed in the past two generations in psychiatry. For over 30 years researchers have assiduously looked for “the” genes for major depressive disorder, bipolar illness, schizophrenia, anxiety conditions, personality disorders – and completely come up empty.”  (quoted in Saving Abnormal, Daniel Berger) – Nassir Ghaemi, “the Genetic Fallacy in Psychiatry,” Medscape Psychiatry (August 5, 2013)

7. Book Recommendation: Saving Normal: An Insider’s Revolt against Out-of-Control Psychiatric Diagnosis, DSM-5, Big Pharma, and the Medicalization of Ordinary Life by Dr. Allen Frances. This book is by a secularist, zero religious inclination, a recognized expert in the areas of Psychiatry, a key leader of all that is secular psychiatry, yet he writes this incredibly blunt and damning indictment against the runaway over diagnosis and over medication of the masses today. He condemns the DSM-5 (latest version) and warns strongly against what has become widely excepted ‘truth’ about mental illness and disorders today.  If you really want to see how deeply we have been deluded from the words and experience of one of their own, you need to read this book.  352 pages.